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So I had a book come out in January, and despite various efforts at promotion, I'm having trouble getting traction with it. The publisher more or less puts the onus on the authors to do the marketing and promotion, which usually isn't a problem for me; I've self-published some stuff that has done fairly well (through my marketing efforts) and thought this would be no different. But the audience for this book has proven harder to reach.
Anyway, I'm not looking for promo ideas so much as asking whether to stop spinning my wheels with this one and move on to the next thing. I have another book coming out soon with another publisher--something much easier to market--but I feel a little like I'm abandoning this baby. And I know it's not like with a movie where if it doesn't find an audience the first weekend it's a goner; the book may yet, later, find readers. I just don't know how much more effort to put into marketing it. Promos are costly and I don't want to throw good money after bad.
Anyway, I'm not looking for promo ideas so much as asking whether to stop spinning my wheels with this one and move on to the next thing. I have another book coming out soon with another publisher--something much easier to market--but I feel a little like I'm abandoning this baby. And I know it's not like with a movie where if it doesn't find an audience the first weekend it's a goner; the book may yet, later, find readers. I just don't know how much more effort to put into marketing it. Promos are costly and I don't want to throw good money after bad.